Rhinolophus rehabilitation scheme.
Due to #Covid19 Rhinolophus has recently received bad press for no good reason.
By the way, there are >100 Rhinolophus species in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania.
They have some incredible abilities (see thread).
What is you preferred species? Rhinolophus species use a highly sophisticated echolocation system. They use the so-called Doppler shift effect to differentiate in the frequency range the call they emit from the returning echos. This means they can emit call and receive+process echoes at the same time! #bats

Are #Bats and #Rodents special reservoirs? New study found that "Animal orders of established importance as zoonotic reservoirs including bats and rodents were UNEXCEPTIONAL, maintaining numbers of zoonoses that closely matched expectations for mammalian groups of their size. 1/n More host species = more viral species all together. As simple as that!
"[...] reservoir species richness was correlated with both the number of zoonotic viruses (65.5% of deviance) and the viral richness (56.4% of deviance) of different reservoir orders" 2/n

#bats can:
1. live 10 times longer than expected given their body size.
2. fly,
3. hibernate
4. "see in the dark" (i.e. echolocate)
5. resist/tolerate many viruses without symptoms
...and many more.

RT and name another bat adaptation you like or find astonishing! #AmazingBats hey @EmmaTeeling1 @bat1kgenomes @Nancy_Bat @rodrigomedellin @FrickWinifred @ProfKateJones @JonesLabBris @boyleslab @DinaDechmann @TiggaKingston @caraebrook @animaltracking @_BCT_ @DanielStreicker @rossiterlab @MathewsFiona @PipatSS @OccasionalBat @EveryBat
What is your favorite?